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Worklight 5.0.5 adds many new features and capabilities. Perhaps the most interesting is the new JSONStore , which is available for Android and iOS hybrid apps. This feature makes it easy to write apps that work with a client side cache (optionally encrypted) of server side data, and synchronize with the server as connectivity allows. It all starts with the Adapter You don't need to use an adapter to use JSONStore, but there is a very powerful tooling and runtime integration for using JSONStore with adapters. In my case, I started by creating... [More]

One of the more common requirements for mobile app is for optimizes UI for both phone and tablet. Both dojo and jQuery have support for views that adapt the presentation based on the device where the app is running. In addition, Worklight has support for Application Skins which give the developer complete control over how the app is customized, and how the appropriate UI is selected. An easy way to define a UI for phone that can be automatically optimized for tablet is structure the app as a root menu view, and a series of detail views that... [More]

Since the Worklight 5.0.5 Rich Page Editor has new support for jQuery Mobile, I thought I'd give it a spin. I'm not a jQuery expert by any stretch, but with the new editor support, I may end up using it as often as I use dojo. Unlike dojo, you still need to provide your own copy of jQuery Mobile (though not jQuery base) when you create the Worklight project. I downloaded jquery.mobile-1.2.0.zip from the jQuery Mobile download site . There is no need to unzip it, just have the archive handy when you want to create a jQuery based Worklight... [More]